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NEW DELHI: Taking a similar line to that he adopted on a just-concluded tour of South India, information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Indian government continues to be in a bind over conditional access system (CAS) and its implementation in Mumbai and Kolkata with...
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena member of parliament Sanjay Nirupam is of the view that the I&B ministry is under some sort of a compulsion to go-ahead with...
MUMBAI: Hindu Hridaysamrat (emperor of Hindu hearts) Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray might not have been able to make it to the CODA (Cable Operators and...
NEW DELHI: India’s federal government is still in a spot over the implementation, rather non-implementation, of the conditional access system (CAS) in the cities of Mumbai...
NEW DELHI: An air of uncertainty hangs over the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry as the cities, where conditional access system (CAS) is to be introduced...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today formally issued the revised eligibility criteria for uplinking of news and current affairs channels from India, which seek to make...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: CAS has crashed out! Almost. And the frustration of a section of a disappointed industry was echoed by Hathway Datacom’s vice-president (North India) SN...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Doordarshan director-general S.Y. Quraishi may be staying put for the moment. His new posting orders have not come but the official hunt...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company tried to make a break for it nearly two years ago, but in the end had to wait till the contract...
NEW DELHI: The government feels that the case of Radio City should have been taken into consideration earlier while giving the licence to Music Broadcast Pvt...
MUMBAI: The Radio Broadcast Policy committee, set up by the ministry of information and broadcasting (I&B) to formulate policy to govern the opening up of phase...
NEW DELHI: The inter-ministerial group (IMG), looking into the case of Star News, feels the equity structuring of Media Content Services India Pvt. Ltd. (MCCS) is...
NEW DELHI: The information & broadcasting ministry has cleared Doordarshan’s direct-to-home (DTH) plan. However, since the projected cost of DD’s DTH foray is pegged at Rs...
NEW DELHI: The government constituted inter-ministerial group (IMG) comprising officials from the information & broadcasting ministry, the law ministry and the department of company affairs met...
NEW DELHI:The ministry of information & broadcasting will take steps to evolve Model Cinema Regulations, which could be adopted by the States. A delegation of the...
NEW DELHI: A team from the United States’ regulatory body, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), held discussions at the information and broadcasting ministry on 24 July, mostly...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government, while giving a two-week extension to Star News for uplinking, indicated today that it may take slightly over a month before...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has fired a twin salvo at Star News. The information and broadcasting ministry today maintained that Media Content & Communication Services...
MUMBAI: Cable operators in Mumbai are up in arms and have rejected the 11 July 2003 government notification that sought to modify the manner in which...
MUMBAI: The Union cabinet this morning “informally” discussed the draft Ordinance prepared by information and broadcasting ministry to regulate broadcasters in a post-conditional access environment Parliamentary...
NEW DELHI: The government’s compromise solution seems to have hit a speed breaker! On conditions of anonymity, government officials say that the cable operators, who met...
MUMBAI: First was Win Radio. Now another FM wannabe has sounded the death throes alarm. Radio Mid Day West India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today gave permission to Media Content & Communication India Pvt Ltd, in which Star holds 26 per cent equity stake, to...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is not averse to the idea if the main channels, including the sports and entertainment ones like Star Plus, Zee TV,...
NEW DELHI: After the turn of KU-band DTH, print media and satellite uplinking, it’s the turn of foreign news agencies to be under the scanner of...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has decided to authorize all registered Indian newspapers to enter into syndication arrangements with foreign publications, under an automatic approval route...
These days information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad does not look uncertain as he did some months back when he was allocated the I&B ministry...
MUMBAI:Hinduja group MSO INCableNet today announced it would brand its Conditional Access System (CAS) service as ‘INDigital’. For provision of CAS service to customers through Set...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today categorically ruled out any extension of the 14 July deadline of CAS and also attempted...
NEW DELHI: This may be music to the ears of some of the private FM radio players. The Indian government is “quite open” to the idea...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: A little over a month after the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry issued a letter of intent (LoI) relating to the DTH...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Guess what? The Big Daddy of them all – Doordarshan – is about to enter the direct to home (DTH) arena. It...
MUMBAI: Ministry of company affairs has rejected most of the contentions of the information and broadcasting ministry relating to Space TV application, while upholding a clause...
NEW DELHI: India’s Information and broadcasting ministry has got itself a new additional secretary (broadcasting) – Vijay Singh as Anil Baijal has been moved to Delhi...
NEW DELHI: The Russian roulette being played out involving the pricing of the basic tier of free to air channels appears to be coming to an...
NEW DELHI: Time to pop the double bubbly at Essel/Zee, it seems. First HITS, now DTH! It is learnt from government sources that the file relating...
NEW DELHI: The Indian cabinet is unlikely to meet on Tuesday (11 March 2003) as it generally does as part of the two designated days in...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: After a “disappointing” budget, the Consumer Electronics Traders and Manufacturers Association (CETMA), the apex body of electronics goods manufacturers in India, had...
NEW DELHI: Subhash Chandra companies Zee Telefilms and ASC Enterprises (which is implementing the Agrani satellite project), are preparing to launch a KU-band direct-to-home television service...
NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star can breathe easy a bit. The information and broadcasting ministry proposes to take the issue of uplinking of news channels...
NEW DELHI: The ministry of defence, under minister George Fernandes, is understood to have suggested that foreign shareholding in a news channel should be capped at...
MUMBAI: Ravi Shankar Prasad was, as expected, sworn in this evening as minister of state for information and broadcasting with independent charge. I&B minister Sushma Swaraj...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj today asserted that the rollout of conditional access in the first phase should be done by 14...
How would you describe India’s information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj ,DTH,? Gutsy and headstrong! Slightly strange for one born on 14 February. There have been...
NEW DELHI: An early rollout of CAS looks unlikely, though the government (read the information and broadcasting ministry) would like an early implementation in the four...
NEW DELHI: It was the day after for the I&B ministry as far as conditional access system (CAS) rollout is concerned. The outcome of a meeting...
MUMBAI: Star India may have announced a 25 per cent drop in subscription rates per subscriber from the current Rs 40 to Rs 30, but cable...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: It would have been surprising if it hadn’t happened thus. Simply because of the big stakes for which some of the members...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry has done it. The Cable TV Network (Amendment) Bill 2002, which aims at facilitating addressability in Indian cable homes...
